Improvement in water-coolers



F. P. LAUBACH.

Water-Coolers.

Patented June 16, 1874.

Nrrnn STATES PATENT FFIGE.

FRANKLIN I. LAUBAGH, OF CATASAUQUA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-COOLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,130, (lated June16,1874; application tiled April 25, 1874.

To all whom tina/ 1j concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN P. LAUBACH, of Cata-sauqua, in the countyot' Lehigh and State ot' Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Tater- Coolers; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description ot' the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whichform part of this specification, in which is shown a vertical eentralsection of my invention.

My invention has for its object to provide a cheap, simple, and easilyconstructed watercooler or refrigerator, one which will cost but little,may be easily made, and which shall y prove very eti'ective and durable.My invention then consists of a water-cooler or refrigerator formed oftwo pans, or equivalent dishes,

provided with suitable inlet and outlet ports, located, respectively, atthe bottom and upper part ot' the water-space, and provided also with anoutlet or drain pipe communicating with theinner pan, and passing thencethrough the center of the outer pan, all as hereinafter specificallydescribed.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates my invention, A is acast-iron pan or similar vessel fitting' into a corresponding pan orvessel, B, the flange a resting upon the' han ge b, said flanges beingdesigned to be fastened together by screws or equivalent bindingdevices. Between the pans is a space, C, which forms the water-chamber.The water is admitted to this chamber through the inletpipe c, and drawn0E through the cock c. The inlet-pipe is designed to be connected to thenozzle of a hydrant or to a pipe proceeding from the main; hence theobject of the above described relative arrangement of inlet and outletis to allow the water to be drawn ott' without sediment, the latteraccumulating at the bottom of the waterspace.

In operation the pan I3 is intended to be placed i'n a box of sawdust orother non-conductor. The ice is placed in the pan A, and covered by ablanket or some equivalent article that will prevent its meltingrapidly.

Then the ice in pan Ahas become converted into water, it may be baledout or drawn ott' through the waste-port ai.

I claimrlhe combination, with a water-cooler constructed specifically asdescribed and shown, the outlet or drain pipe c communicating with theinner pan, and passing thence through the center ot' the outer pan, asshown.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this16th day ot April, 1874.

FRANKLIN P. LAUBACH.

Witnesses:

JNO. A. BELL, Trios. A. CoNNoLLY.

